Hudson River

Last week, I traveled to New York with Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin to photograph his review of the new One World Trade Center building in Lower Manhattan. The trip took me around the building from near and far and all the way to the top looking for clean angles. Thirteen years after the original Twin Towers were destroyed, the largest building on the site is about to open its doors. Conde Nast will be the first tenant, moving into the lower 22 floors soon. With 48 hours on the ground, I wanted to photograph the building from as many spots as possible. I plotted out a plan with help from Google Streetview and kept track of sunrise and sunset times and angles. The building...

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